l66 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



Malta ; but, though often seen in the valleys 

 and by roadsides in the neighbourhood of trees, 

 it is not so numerous in the island as M.grisola: 

 Mr. O. Salvin found the Pied Flycatcher not 

 uncommon about Souk Harras in the Eastern 

 Atlas, and Mr. Tyrrwhitt Drake saw it during 

 the spring migration in Tangier and Eastern 

 Morocco. A specimen from the River Gambia 

 is in the collection of Mr. R. B. Sharpe. Mr. 

 J. H. Gurney, jun., during a recent tour in Al- 

 geria, encountered this amongst other familiar 

 birds. He says (" Ibis," 1871, p. 76) : " It was 

 not until April that I saw this species, after 

 which it became common. In the dayats and in 

 the Gardaia, where they most abounded, the 

 proportion of adult males in full summer plu- 

 mage to young birds and females was as one to 

 five. They looked exceedingly picturesque in 

 the rich foliage of the oases, clinging perhaps to 

 a rough palm stem, though their more usual 

 perch was the upper bough of a bush, whence 

 they would dart off after passing flies." To this 

 I may add that the note frequently repeated is 



